Quotes of: Politicians Keyword

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

David Hockney

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Todd Rokita

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

Gary Bauer

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

Carly Fiorina

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

Christopher Hitchens

Politicians and others are stuck in a horrible world where being emotional in any way counts as being unbalanced, and unable to think clearly. For me, emotions are thought.

Hofesh Shechter

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

Iain Banks

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

Ice Cube

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.

Graham Steele

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Henry Louis Gates

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Jay McInerney

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

Dan Maffei

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Johann Lamont

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

Rick Astley

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

Tina Brown

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Lord Byron

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Theresa May

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

Joe Wurzelbacher

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Robert Kiyosaki